BARC sets up tech incubation centre

Mumbai, Nov 2 (PTI) A centre for incubation of
technologies is being set up by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,
which will work jointly with the Indian industries on some
spin-off technologies.
The Centre for incubation of technologies (BARCIT),
being set up at the old Training School Complex outside
BARC, will have easy access to technologists from the industry
to jointly work with BARC scientists, A M Patankar, Head,
Technology Transfer and collaboration, said Monday.
BARCIT will get funding and human resource from the
industry while the scientists of BARC will help them in
developing lab technologies for community use, he said.
The work on four technology incubation has been
initiated in the area of water, biotechnology, scientific and
medical equipment and Electron Beam applications, Patankar
said.
"So far during the last five decades, we carried out
transfer of technologies from BARC to industry but with BARCIT
it would be possible to work with industry closely to develop
the technologies even upto industrial scale just outside the
BARC premises," he said. (MORE) PTI